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SPANISH PRONUNCIATION

Your goal is to make yourself understood. If you sound like a foreign person, that is okay. If you can’t roll your Rs, that is okay too. The Spanish language is more widely spread than any other tongue save English; and in the half millennium of its situation, it has lost much of its original uniformity in pronunciation. Today, Spanish is a language that shows s significant variety of regional norms. Thus a gentleman- caballero (kah-bah-yeh-roh) is one Spanish-spealong community a (kah-bah-hyeh-roh) in other Spanish-speaking community, and something else still in yet another.

Linguistic diffusion, in short, has been a mighty wrecker of Spanish pronunciational purity, and an ongoing impetus toward local change and diversity. Like English, Spanish has become a very variously spoken tongue indeed. The best way to learn Spanish pronunciation is to master the basic sounds of Spanish and then interact with the language as much as possible: by listening to music and downloading lyrics, tuning into Spanish-language television, or conversing with Spanish speaker.

Improve your Spanish pronunciation using these lessons and other resources.

• Spanish Vowels
  Most students find the Spanish vowel sounds fairly easy to learn, since most of them have basicly one sound each.
  
  
• Pronouncing the 'Easy' Consonants
  This pronunciation guide covers those consanants that are sounded very similarly to their English counterparts.
  
  
• Pronouncing Difficult Consonants
  This pronunciation guide covers those consanants that are sounded significantly differently than their English counterparts.
  
  
• Stress and Accent Marks
  Learn which syllable of Spanish word receives the stress and how that can be modified through the use of diacritical marks known as accents.
  
  
• Spanish Silent Letters
  Spanish has a few words, most of them of Greek origin, that feature a silent letter other than H.
  
  

Spanish Pronunciation

Pronouncing the Spanish R It is important to learn how to pronounce the Spanish R. Many Spanish words use this consonant as in English. Pronouncing the Spanish RR The proper pronunciation of the Spanish RR determines the meaning of the word. Pronouncing the Spanish X The Spanish X has two pronunciations depending on its position and it sounds like the English s. Pronouncing the Spanish H The Spanish H is always silent. These h's generally signal certain vowel sounds, which this section will cover. Pronouncing the Spanish G The Spanish G is not strongly pronounced as in English, but its sound is one that does not exist in English.